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We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Highlands North Carolina hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, the beautiful and historic San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong, the Porto Bay Rio Internacional Hotel in Rio de Janeiro and the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. are internationally renowned hotels.

National Parks, Nature Reserves, State Parks, State Forests, National Forests and Refuges in North Carolina

Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge with black bears, alligators and endangered red wolves; Hanging Rock State Park; Grandfather Mountain State Park; Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge with black bears, deer and waterfowl;Nantahala National Forest, the largest in the state, with its gorges and waterfalls; the famous Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with its scenery including many waterfalls and which extends into Tennessee (the National park is also the habitat of black bears and increasing numbers of elk); the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, extending into Virginia and home to black bears, beavers and other wildlife; Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge;Chimney Rock State Park, allegedly the scene of a battle of the War in Heaven;Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, the largest in North Carolina, with black bears, red wolves, alligators and large flocks of snow geese in the winter; Lumber River State Park; Gorges State Park with its numerous waterfalls; Stone Mountain State Park; the new Dismal Swamp State Park; Currituck National Wildlife Refuge; Swan Quarter National Wildlife Refuge with its waterfowl and alligators; Uwharrie National Forest;Croatan National Forest with bears, alligators, bald eagles and carnivorous plants; Jockey’s Ridge State Park; Carolina Beach State Park with Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants; South Mountains State Park; William B Umstead State Park; Pisgah National Forest, containing Looking Glass Rock; Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge; and Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge, are among the national or state parks, forests and refuges of North Carolina.

The Black Eyed Kid of Triangle Town Center in Raleigh; the feline, vampiristic Beast of Bladenboro; the fierce phantom hound of Valle Crucis; the burning ghost ship seen near Ocracoke Island, a spectral reminder that a ship's crew murdered their passengers for gold and then destroyed the evidence;Devil's Courthouse (sometimes Court House) near Brevard, where Cherokee legend asserts that Satan sits in judgment; the pre-Columbian white tribe, descendants of Jonah, who inhabited the land near Looking Glass Rock; the two men and a woman, spectres, who still haunt the Thalian Hall theater in Wilmington; the angelic warriors who battled on winged horses at Chimney Rock, confirming the truth of the War in Heaven; the duellist and the lady whose spirits haunt the New Hanover County Library in Wilmington; and the ghost of conductor Joe Baldwin, killed by a train, whose lantern light may still be seen at Maco, are among the true ghost stories, myths and legends of North Carolina.

The phantom, filmed in 1967, seen in Wilmington's Price-Gause House; the headless ghost of Blackbeard the pirate who swims at Teach's Hole, Ocracoke Island; the spirits of appropriately named Cape Fear, including Confederate General William Whiting in Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington; the well documented but mysterious Brown Mountain lights, believed by some to be connected with UFOs and alien abductions; the musical water sprite in the pools of the French Broad River, east of Asheville, who dooms those it lures, not indifferently like the lorelei but with the deliberate malevolence of a siren; the mischievious Pink Lady of Grove Park Inn, Asheville, who is a spirit but not a gin cocktail; the Cameron Village Sewer Blob, also known as the Poop Monster; Boojum of Eaglenest Mountain (Eagle Nest Mountain), a sasquatch said to guard a treasure of gemstones and presumably named after Lewis Carroll's snark; the face that appears if you gaze into a spring of the Great Balsam Mountains, which may not be your own but the hideous visage of a Cherokee woman, cursed by a manitou because of her flirtatiousness; and not Dracula but Jutaculla (Judaculla), a slant-eyed giant that dwells in the caves of Devil's Courthouse and/or Tanasee Bald (Tannasee Bald) in the appropriately named Transylvania County (Tanasee Bald extends into Haywood County, where the bigfoot-like Boojum prowls), are other legendary tales of ghosts and haunted places in North Carolina.

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